Monday, February 6, 2017

A formal request to the Attorney General of Québec

A formal request to the Attorney General

By: Mohamed S
Kamel*

@mskamel

February 2, 2017

On
Sunday night at a safe peaceful place, stood the victims with their families
and friends at their local mosque to perform their night prayer. A mosque
located in a quiet touristic city. A young Quebecer entered that mosque armed
with hate and a rifle, terrorized the prayers, shattered the silence and ended
their life.

The
young man has been identified as Alexandre Bissonnette, and is being charged
with six first-degree murders and five attempted murders. We can’t convict him
until the court does, but we have to ask ourselves the question; did he do it
alone?

What
we know about Alexandre so far is that he was a peaceful young man living a
normal life. However, he has ears and eyes; was not isolated in a silo
from all that is happening around him.

Alexandre
grew up during the Hérouxville era, when a mayor of a small city, knowing
nothing about Muslims or Islam, decided to issue a chart forcing immigrants to
accept Quebec values, as if one’s values are superior to others.

What
could he have been thinking as he watched a five-million-dollar commission
investigating the so-called “reasonable accommodation”? A commission to
respond to lies and hate propaganda. For sure, he asked himself; “why should we
accommodate and receive these people to our country?”

Things
did not settle for long before started even more ridiculous ideas with late
Quebec’s government proposed so-called “Charter of Values”. It did
not stop there. Shortly after, re-started with the Parti Quebecois’
leadership election, where candidates competed for racism and racist votes, and
their leader committed to ban Islamic Hijab.

Still
no answer to the question; why we receive these people and accommodate their
strange religion and values in our country?

Then
came the federal election core question, do we allow “Niqabi” women to vote or
not? Instead of debating our needs of employment and our children's future, we
are debating nonsense questions.

Again,
the Conservative leadership campaign is debating MP Kellie Leitch’s support of
Trump’s policy and her plan to screen immigrants for prescribing to ‘Canadian
Value’. Because her understanding of values is superior to everyone
else’s, especially those Muslims.

Did
we ever speak up against this prejudice and hate speech? We did not! Even some
media outlets promoted the notion of superiority.

What
we know so far is that Alexandre lived his life and affected by all this
propaganda. Then came Marie Le Pen, the worst right wing in France’s
modern history. Alexandre’s life changed completely after he started
following the hate speeches and the fear mongering promoted by Le Pen.

Alexandre
reached a point of hate that needed a small push. Came Trump with his
sickening views, and plans that we all listened to, and joked about. He was the
spark that flamed this hate into exploding and justified killing neighbours.

Alexandre
will be brought to justice, but why alone? He did not commit the crime without
support and promotion. Should we not bring Le Pen and Trump to justice
with him, they are the stirrers of this terrorist crime.

Some
will reject this notion, how can we possibly think of denying white supremacist
the right of free speech or accusing them of complicity? Both are
partners in this crime. That notion is the reason that the world experienced
people like Hitler. If we had stopped such fascists, millions of innocents
would be alive today.

Consider
this as a formal request to the attorney general of Quebec to indict Le Pen and
Trump as partners with Alexandre Bissonnette. Alexandre pulled the
trigger but he is not the one that started the provocation the hate and the
fear in generations to come.

People
in the East and the Middle East are living under double terrorism. Terrorism
from their own government and another one from the terrorist groups, such as
ISIS. We, in the West, do not know yet the meaning of living under this threat.
The hate mongers brought terrorism home and helped it grow. Homemade
terrorism that is spreading fear. If we do not resist it, it will become
our only core value.

* Mohamed S. Kamel: is a Freelance writer, the editor of http://forafreeegypt.blogspot.com/, he is a professional
engineer, a LEED Green Associate and a recognized project manager professional
(PMP), he is Member of several civil society organizations, a co-founder,
Secretary General of The Egyptian Revolutionary Council (ERC), a co-founder of
the Egyptian Canadian Coalition for Democracy (ECCD-CECD), Egyptian Worldwide
for Democracy and Justice (EW4DJ), Canadian Egyptian for Democracy (CEFD),
National Association for Change in Egypt (Taghyeer – Canada), Alternative
Perspective Media (APM-RAM), , Quebec Antiwar movement “Échec à la Guerre”,
Coalition for Justice and Peace in Palestine “CJPP”, ex-president and
co-founder of the Canadian Muslim Forum (CMF-FCM), member of the board of
trustee in the Canadian Muslim for Palestine (CMP) and Community Center for Montreal
Muslims (CCMM). He could be reached at Tel: 1-514-863-9202,
and by email:public@mohamedkamel.comand followed at @mskamel

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*Mohamed S. Kamel: is a Freelance writer, the editor of http://forafreeegypt.blogspot.com/, he is a professional engineer, a LEED Green Associate and a recognized project manager professional (PMP), he is Member of several civil society organizations, a co-founder, ex-Secretary General of The Egyptian Revolutionary Council (ERC), a co-founder of the Egyptian Canadian Coalition for Democracy (ECCD-CECD), Egyptian Worldwide for Democracy and Justice (EW4DJ), Canadian Egyptian for Democracy (CEFD), National Association for Change in Egypt (Taghyeer – Canada), Alternative Perspective Media (APM-RAM), , Quebec Antiwar movement “Échec à la Guerre”, Coalition for Justice and Peace in Palestine “CJPP”, ex-president and co-founder of the Canadian Muslim Forum (CMF-FCM), member of the board of trustee in the Canadian Muslim for Palestine (CMP) and Cultural Center for Montreal Muslims (CCMM). He could be reached at public@mohamedkamel.com and followed at @mskamel